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terebinthine
[ ter-uh-bin-thin, -thahyn ]
terebinthine
/ ˌtɛrɪˈbɪnθaɪn /
adjective
- of or relating to terebinth or related plants
- of, consisting of, or resembling turpentine
Word History and Origins
Origin of terebinthine1
Example Sentences
All around stood the ever-changing wilderness; lofty, perpendicular beeches, terebinthine oaks, with an occasional dark-green pine.
Who can tell whether our New England climate, with all its consumptive provocations, might not be found absolutely unendurable but for the amelioration furnished by this generously diffused terebinthine prophylactic?
It was a high region of rolling country, heavily wooded with magnificent pine forests, rich in terebinthine resources.
Many families from New Orleans, and other exposed situations, retire to the pine barrens of Louisiana, in the hot and sickly season, where limpid streams, flowing over a pebbly bed, and a terebinthine atmosphere are enjoyed.
It is of these knots they make their tar in New-England, and the country adjacent, whilst they are well impregnated with that terebinthine, and resinous matter, which like a balsom, preserves them so long from putrefaction.
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